Word: postfascist
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Because a certain kind of modernizing hopefulness fuels such extravaganzas, prospering, postfascist Spain was the inevitable next place for such an event. The Spanish government spent billions on the fair and attendant public works, including a new high-speed bullet train that makes the trip from Madrid to Seville in less than three hours. Like any world's fair, Expo '92 has its fetching gizmos. The 231 IBM touch-screen computer monitors scattered around the 538-acre site are truly useful: a visitor, presented with an aerial photo of Expo, touches anything in the picture and gets a closeup view...
Both traditions were faithfully upheld as Italy last week got its 42nd postFascist government: a three-party minority coalition headed by Christian Democrat Francesco Cossiga, 51, a surprising but respected choice. The formation of the new Cabinet ended what had appeared to be an insoluble political crisis lasting 186 days-a new national record-and dating back to January when Premier Giulio Andreotti was toppled by the Communists' withdrawal of their parliamentary support. It also showed every sign of being a stopgap. "We will have a government of truce," quipped a deputy in a cartoon in Turin...
...claimed responsibility for the bombing, which both explained as an attack on Rome's Communist municipal administration. Whoever did the deed, the blast was only part of a surge in mayhem that has paralleled the campaigning for the June election that is to produce Italy's 42nd postFascist government. Since early April, after Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti's attempt to form another Cabinet was stillborn because the Communists refused to support it, Italy has been racked by new violence...
...Portugal (see following story), President Antonio de Spinola resigned with a dramatic warning against the left. Right-wingers in Spinola's postfascist government were quickly purged by the pro-left officers of the ruling junta...
...ourselves from the movement of history," Almirante answered carefully. "I am inspired neither by Fascism nor by antiFascism. If Mussolini were alive today and said the things he used to say, he would make the Italians laugh." However, added Almirante, "if he were alive today, he would be a postFascist like me, and he would say different things. Everything has changed. Do you want me to appear on the balcony and exhort the country to go to war? That's laughable now. But I do not spit on that past. I am not ashamed of having lost...